Acts/Laws
law that protected Black Americans' right to vote
Civil Rights Act of 1957
What was the result of the Korean War?
1st nuclear power plant in the US
Shippingport Atomic Power Station
invented ARPAnet
Leonard Kleinrock
the first man in space
Yuri Gagarin
US Space agency
NASA
Established the CIA and planned for national security
National Security Act
the US and Soviet Union threatened to use nuclear weapons
Cold War
The false belief that God does not exist
atheism
evangelist whose meetings were televised worldwide
Billy Graham
1st Black 4 star general
1st American in space
Alan B. Shepard
Outlawed discrimination in employment & public places
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Separated free and communist Berlin
Berlin Wall
created for nations to work together to solve problems
United Nations
arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
created the interstate highway system
1st man on the moon
Neil Armstrong
guaranteed the civil rights of Native Americans could not be taken by tribal governments
Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968
Ended the Korean War
created to stop the spread of communism
NATO
gave a speech titled "I have a Dream"
Martin Luther King Jr.
Dictator of Cuba
Fidel Castro
1st man to orbit to earth
John Glenn
Ensured fair housing rights for all Americans
Fair Housing Act of 1968
ended the Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
provided medical care for senior citizens
Medicaid
1st black advisor to the president
Robert Weaver
1st black supreme court justice
Thurgood Marshall
Sputnik 1
Ruled schools would not be segragated
Brown v Board of Education; Supreme Court
What was the result of the Vietnam war?
North Vietnam invaded and took over with communism
peaceful protests by college students
freedom rides; sit-ins
developed a vaccine against polio
Jonas Salk
created the mouse-run computer
Douglas Engelbart
1st successful NASA moon landing
Apollo 11
amendment that limited the terms a president could serve
22nd amendment
term used to describe the divide between free countries and communist countries in Eastern Europe
iron curtain
1st nuclear powered submarine
USS Nautilus
Had the plan of a "Great Society"
Lyndon B. Johnson
created a policy that stated the US would stop the overthrow of a free country
Truman
nation that launched the first satellite
Soviet Union